Sentence examples for global cargo from inspiring English sources

" This is important for Asian airlines, which handle about a third of the global cargo business.

"Emirates works like a corporation," says Ram C. Menen, who runs the company's global cargo operations.

Airline leaders said they were worried about weakness in global cargo traffic to and from Europe.

Container terminals play an important role in global cargo transportation and they have become an essential intermodal interface between the sea and the land.

The index was conceived as a way of standardizing global cargo prices, by taking a daily canvas of Baltic's network of sea-based freight brokers and compiling the costs of booking shipments of raw materials.

Rather, the industry has been slow to recognize a business model, governments aren't forcing the industry's hand, and the global cargo industry has not been motivated to forge standards.

Lufthansa Cargo is among nine airlines accused of violating antitrust laws by fixing prices in the $50 billion global air cargo market.

In a detailed account of its failed parcel bomb plot last month, Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen said late Saturday that the operation cost only $4,200 to mount, was intended to disrupt global air cargo systems and reflected a new strategy of low-cost attacks designed to inflict broad economic damage.

The drop in global air cargo that occurred in 2000 and 2001, according to Bob Dole, project director for the Air Cargo Management Group, was turned around "in 2004, with a 14% growth rate that later dropped to 3% in 2005.

The resultant disruption of global air cargo network would have significant economic ramifications.

But China has not imported any corn or wheat this year, as a global shortage of cargo ships has doubled freight rates, eliminating the price advantage that imported grain used to enjoy, a Chinese grain trading expert said.